Is it within the legislative rather than the judicial prerogative of the federal courts to rewrite or amend a statute?
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The following excerpt is from United States v. Lkav, D.C. No. 4:11-cr-02966-JGZ-CRP-1, No. 12-10483 (9th Cir. 2013):
"a decision to [rearrange] or rewrite [a] statute falls within the legislative, not the judicial, prerogative." Xi v. INS, 298 F.3d 832, 839 (9th Cir. 2002).
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